Can I trademark Sloperating System?
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I think GN beat you to it
except for the embedded license revenues the multitudes keep paying.
I'm a linux user but this is so cringe.
I know this is a Linux space, and I love Linux but my Windows 11 box runs just fine. I haven't had any problems with it.
I use MacOS and Win11 every single day. I used Linux for a long time, I still have my CD I got from Canonical with Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake LTS. Naturally, fanboys of all three will talk about each as if it were the obvious choice. IMHO they're all good in their own respective ways. It's a Venn diagram made up of adoption/support, simplicity, and openness.
This year alone I had to reinstall 3 Windows systems that were failing to work. Then again, my Windows 11 work laptop also seems to work just fine.
Well that sucks. I hope everything keeps running from now on.
Then you’re lucky. Win11 virtually pushed me to Linux, I was a windows fanboy before.
Windows 10 was the last actual Microsoft OS.
I’m not a fanboy, I just use whatever works
I don't think it was implied you were.
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Always has been
Maybe it’s because I neutered my W11 and only dual boot to launch the occasional game or Windows specific driver, but… I haven’t had significant issues with W11? Not that I can remember over the past two years.
No broken updates, no weird copilot things, no excessive background usage, nothing. The only maintenance I do is manually updating graphics drivers.
It wastes none of my time.
The one issue I had was the LG monitor debacle, that tried to install Mcafee, but that was LG’s fault (and I’m never, ever buying an LG display again, as long as I live. I hope you’re happy, LG marketing).
I find this remarkable, because to me it means, Windows doesn’t have to be junk, yet they deliberately configure it that way, and make it extremely difficult to undo. I used a slew of tools neuter it, but I’d have no idea where to start without them.
And to be clear, I use Linux 90% of the time, so I’m not advocating for Windows or anything.
Maybe it’s because I neutered my W11 and only dual boot to launch the occasional game or Windows specific driver
Yes, it's that. If you'd use it as your daily driver, you would notice. I do tech support at work and there's hardly a month that goes by without a Win 11 machine sitting on my desk that has - miraculously! - fucked-up drivers or other issues after an "update".
Windows updates the computer and I swear my ram speed went down.
I have experienced all of that on my work machine. Its a mess of breakage and glitches and background stalls. Group policy initially stopped copilot but now its back again... And its always just enough to mess up your mouse flow
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